surinvestir

French

Verb

surinvestir

1. to overinvest

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of surinvestir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	surinvestir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	surinvestissant /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		surinvesti /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	surinvestis /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestis /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestit /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestissons /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	surinvestissez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.se/	surinvestissent /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect	surinvestissais /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	surinvestissais /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	surinvestissait /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	surinvestissions /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	surinvestissiez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	surinvestissaient /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	surinvestis /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestis /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestit /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestîmes /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tim/	surinvestîtes /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tit/	surinvestirent /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
	future	surinvestirai /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	surinvestiras /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	surinvestira /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	surinvestirons /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/	surinvestirez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	surinvestiront /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	surinvestirais /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	surinvestirais /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	surinvestirait /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	surinvestirions /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	surinvestiriez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁje/	surinvestiraient /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	surinvestisse /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	surinvestisses /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	surinvestisse /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	surinvestissions /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	surinvestissiez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	surinvestissent /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect2	surinvestisse /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	surinvestisses /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	surinvestît /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	surinvestissions /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	surinvestissiez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	surinvestissent /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	surinvestis /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	—	surinvestissons /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	surinvestissez /sy.ʁɛ̃.vɛs.ti.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “surinvestir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.